Ask HN: Is Algol used anywhere today?

I can't answer your question, but I immediately thought of Perlis's preface to SICP: "Algol 60, never to be an active language again, lives on in the genes of Scheme and Pascal."<p>Did racket revive Algol 60, even if with a weak pulse?

You could start a movement with Algol 68 Genie:<p><a href="http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html" rel="nofollow">http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html</a>

I think the bourne shell if..then..else..fi syntax is derived from Algol.